Wiktionary
vb. (context rare English) (alternative spelling of crystallize English)
WordNet
v. make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear; "Could you clarify these remarks?"; "Clear up the question of who is at fault" [syn: clear, clear up, shed light on, crystallize, crystallise, crystalise, straighten out, sort out, enlighten, illuminate, elucidate]
cause to form crystals or assume crystalline form; "crystallize minerals" [syn: crystallize, crystallise, crystalise]
assume crystalline form; become crystallized [syn: crystallize, crystalise, effloresce]
cause to take on a definite and clear shape; "He tried to crystallize his thoughts" [syn: crystallize, crystallise, crystalise]
Usage examples of "crystalize".
The personal character, teachings, life, and death of Jesus Christ, together with his subsequent resurrection and career in the consciousness of ecclesiastical Christendom, constituted the crystalizing centre which, dipped in the inherited solution of ideal and social materials furnished by the Church, has gathered around it the accretion of faith and dogma composing the theoretic Christianity of the present day.
To have admitted this publicly would have crystalized everyone's nightmare.
Mebby it has been a tryin' to tell of big diamond mines that it has passed through - great cliffs and crags of gold sot deep with the crystalized dew of diamonds.
The Lake somehow looked like a glowin' pavement, it didn't look like water, but it seemed like broad fields of azure and palest lavender, and pinky grey, and pearly white, and every soft and delicate color that water could be crystalized into.
The three of them turned to see Professor Slughorn, who was wearing an enormous furry hat and an overcoat with matching fur collar, clutching a large bag of crystalized pineapple, and occupying at least a quarter of the shop.
His little feet resting upon a velvet pouffe, he was sitting well back in a comfortable winged armchair, one hand grasping a small glass of wine, the other searching through a box of crystalized pineapple.
As they approached the pyramid he glimpsed a dim glow near the base which presently resolved itself into a doorway, on either side of which brooded stone lions with the heads of women, cryptic, inscrutable, nightmares crystalized in stone.
They dined Cantonese-style on three treasure soup, green jade scallops, and crystalized fruit in syrup of ginger.
A white, wet blanket of snow unfurled itself over them, then an icy gust of wind crystalized it into a sheet of ice.
It's the sight of a truck bed with two-meter-high imitation test tubes racked on it, with plastic extensions to the exhaust pipe ingeniously funnelled through to make fumes come out of the tubes, that suddenly crystalizes a suspicion from his inchoate thoughts: Avakian!
It escapes the Ego's resistance by associating with similar images, memories, or experiences relative (recieved in this life), that the mind contains, and crystalizes itself by their symbolism.
Only the red stain remained, clotting and crystalizing under the onslaught of the morning sun.